Dyslexia-friendly books

I just found out that Lorimer (which publishes my middle-grade novels) has a line of “dyslexia-friendly” books. I’ve just read their The Secret Games of Maximus Todd, Hyper to the Max, and it was terrific.

I was fascinated by the pains they’ve taken to make the series easier to read for kids with dyslexia. Here’s how Lorimer formats their dyslexia-friendly books:

They use a font called OpenDyslexic, which was created specifically for dyslexic readers. The bottoms of letters are weighted, to help prevent letters from flipping around.

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